Long ago there was a Chamorro family
belonging to the Achote tribe. The family had a beautiful young daughter
who was admired by everyone in the tribe.

One day the girl became very thirsty. She
wanted to drink the juice from a special fruit. Everyone tried to find
the fruit she described but to no avail. Soon the girl became very ill
and died.

The father buried the girl on a hill over
looking the village. He placed a beautiful headstone on her grave and
the people covered it with many beautiful flowers.

One day the villagers noticed a strange
plant growing on the girl's grave. They thought it was magic and built a
shelter to protect it.

Five years after the plant appeared, it
had grown 20 feet tall, strange looking fruits appeared. One of the
fruits dropped to the ground and cracked open.

The chief called on the father of the
dead girl to eat the strange fruit but he refused. He called his wife to
eat the fruit. She said it was sweet and chewy and called it coconut. It
remains one of the main foods eaten by the Chamorro people.